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The links section is still visible and usable to those who had used it before it was hidden in core by default, pulling it out completely would likely remove data/features from sites (as made obvious by how the amount of users manually implementing it after the fact as well).

I completely agree with @Clorith. RIght now, the maintenance burden of maintaining the blogroll where it is (hidden for new users or users that never used it). I think if that burden ever changes we should revisit it, but for me this is maybelater.

There's no maintenance burden, it exists for those who used it, and it's not there for those who don't use it. I see no real benefit to modifying the DB schema just for this (and given the popularity of the plugin to re-enable the admin menu for it, it would be silly to remove it, I am fairly confident other plugins rely on this table as well).

As Jorbin mentioned, if there suddenly becomes a maintenance burden with this module, we can revisit it at that time, but for now there's really no need to worry about it.

As an aside, we do not know how many users actually use this feature where it's kept enabled for them from before we removed it by default, this means that if we pull it out of core those sites will need to get a plugin to restore functionality that is also reflected on the front-end, and is therefore a step that must be carefully weighed before we make that move in the future.